Abstract
The Arthropod Containment Guidelines are a product of the work of the American Committee of Medical Entomology, a subcommittee of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. The guidelines provide a reference for research laboratories to assess risk and establish protocols for the safe handling of arthropod vectors of human and animal disease agents. The guidelines were originally published in 2004 and have been updated here to reflect the spectrum of vector taxa under investigation, and the demands of working with vector arthropods in the context of the Select Agent Rule.
Highlights
Laboratories in which living arthropods are reared and maintained for research purposes have been in existence for decades with few reports of harm to their workers or to the communities in which they are located
The Arthropod Containment Guidelines are a product of the work of the American Committee of Medical Entomology, a subcommittee of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
The concomitant drop in incidence of malaria and other human infectious diseases was reversed after Anopheles gambiae was discovered in the port city of Natal, Brazil, in 1930 (Soper and Wilson 1943)
Summary
Laboratories in which living arthropods are reared and maintained for research purposes have been in existence for decades with few reports of harm to their workers or to the communities in which they are located Many of these organisms are associated with potential risks should they escape, since many are vectors of infectious human diseases. When they are experimentally infected with a human pathogen, the arthropods represent an immediate risk to those who come into contact with them. These guidelines represent the position of the committee as a whole, not that of all individuals nor of the membership’s individual institutions Transgenic arthropods and those containing microbes modified by recombinant DNA technology are addressed here solely in the context of public health significance. Most of the emphasis of this textbook is methodological, safety aspects are addressed
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